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Papers presented at a symposium in Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 1986. Addresses the study of footprints, nests, and eggs of dinosaurs and their use in interpreting behavior, paleoecology, paleo environments, and evolution. Topics include a history of the field, the locomotion of dinosaurs, reports from several specific sites, and techniques of conservation and preservation. No subject index. A full course of deduction, with substantial sides of speculation, has allowed a Holmes devotee and a master chef to compile four dozen recipes from the 200 mentions of food in the Holmes canon. Adapted for American kitchens and tastes. First edition published in 1976. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

From Michael Sims, the acclaimed author of The Story of Charlotte's Web, the rich, true
tale tracing the young Arthur Conan Doyle's creation of Sherlock Holmes and the modern detective story.As a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle studied in ...

Thirteen authors, including Gail Z. Martin, David Gerrold, and Jonathan Maberry, come together to pen
short stories innovating Sherlock Holmes, adapting and revolutionizing the iconic character. Sherlock Holmes is one of the most iconic and lasting figures in literature. His ...

Daniil Kharms (1905-42) is known as an author of Russian absurd literature. It is generally
overlooked that the pseudonym Kharms encodes Sherlock Holmes's Russian name of Kholms. An intertextual comparison between Kharms and Holmes shows how Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes ...

“Mattias Boström has done the impossibleencapsulated the journey of Sherlock Holmes from international literary superstar
to modern day television hero.”Lyndsay FayeEveryone knows Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a unique literary character who has remained popular for ...

Holmes attends a seance to unmask an impostor posing as a medium, Sebastian Melmoth, a
man hell-bent on obtaining immortality after the discovery of an ancient Egyptian papyrus. It is up to Holmes and Watson to stop him and avert ...

When Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his fictional sleuth in the 1893 story The Final
Problem, distraught readers resorted to producing their own versions of Sherlock Holmes's adventures―thus inventing the now-common genre of fan fiction. These tales by famous and ...

From 1920 until his death in 1962, consciousness and its effect on the natural world
was Robinson Jeffers’s obsession. Understanding and explaining the biological basis of mind is one of the towering challenges of modern science to this day, and ...